Alibaba Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) Monitoring Integration
Site24x7 offers full visibility into Alibaba Cloud Key Management Service (KMS), providing real-time metrics on request volume, latency, and error rates. When you integrate your Alibaba Cloud account with Site24x7, all KMS instances are automatically discovered and continuously monitored. You can configure thresholds, receive alerts, and automate actions to maintain secure and uninterrupted access to cryptographic keys.
Use cases
- Request volume monitoring: Track the number of key operations, including symmetric and asymmetric encrypt/decrypt requests, signing, verification, and secret retrieval.
- Latency tracking: Measure response times for KMS API requests to ensure consistent performance.
- Error monitoring: Detect spikes in 4xx and 5xx responses to prevent key access failures.
- Proactive alerting and automation: Use thresholds and IT automation rules to quickly respond to performance degradation or service errors.
Setup and configuration
- Log in to your Site24x7 account and navigate to Cloud > Alibaba Cloud > Add Monitor.
- In the Edit Alibaba Cloud Monitor page, select Key Management Service (KMS) from the Service Types list.
- Once added, go to Cloud > Alibaba > KMS to view dashboards and performance metrics.
Supported metrics
Request Volume & Performance
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Request Total (1m) | The total number of KMS API requests in the past minute. | Count |
| Asymmetric Decrypt Requests (1m) | Number of asymmetric decrypt operations in the last minute. | Count |
| Asymmetric Sign Requests (1m) | Number of asymmetric signing operations in the last minute. | Count |
| Symmetric Requests (1m) | Number of symmetric encrypt/decrypt operations in the last minute. | Count |
| Asymmetric Encrypt Requests (1m) | Number of asymmetric encrypt operations in the last minute. | Count |
| Asymmetric Verify Requests (1m) | Number of asymmetric verify operations in the last minute. | Count |
| Secret Requests (1m) | Number of secret retrieval requests in the last minute. | Count |
| Other Requests (1m) | Number of other KMS API requests in the last minute. | Count |
| Latency (1m) | Average response time for KMS API requests over the last minute. | Milliseconds |
Error Rates
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Code 4xx (1m) | Number of 4xx errors (client-side errors) returned by KMS in the last minute. | Count |
| Code 5xx (1m) | Number of 5xx errors (server-side errors) returned by KMS in the last minute. | Count |
Threshold configuration
- Go to Admin > Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability.
- Create or edit a threshold profile for KMS.
- Assign the profile to the respective monitors to trigger alerts.
IT automation
Site24x7's IT Automation tools help with automatically resolving performance degradation issues. When a breach occurs, the alarm engine continuously examines the system events for which thresholds have been defined and performs the mapped automation.
- Go to Admin > IT Automation Templates.
- Create a new automation rule.
- Map the rule to the monitor for proactive resolution.
How to configure IT Automation for a monitor
Configuration rules
With Site24x7's Configuration Rules, you can set parameters like Threshold Profile, Notification Profile, Tags, and Monitor Group for multiple monitors and automate the configuration settings of your monitoring resources. Automatically assign these settings when new KMS monitors are added.
How to add a Configuration Rule